Danny Boy

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publisher:	Alfred Music (publisher of sheet music for music education)
lyricist:	Frederick Edward Weatherly (from 1910 until 1913)
composer:	[traditional] (special purpose artist)

publisher:	Boosey & Hawkes (publisher; do NOT use as release label) Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. (USA, publisher; do NOT use as release label)
sub-publisher:	Public Music AB

lyrics page:	https://genius.com/Bing-crosby-danny-boy-lyrics [info]
SecondHandSongs:	https://secondhandsongs.com/work/8141 [info]
Wikidata:	Q1164523 [info]

later translated versions:	דני בוי
is based on:	Londonderry Air
is the basis for:	Emerald Eyes (Danny Boy)
arrangements:	Danny Boy (for violin and orchestra, arr. Lenehan & Kennedy) Danny Boy (arr. Gamley) Danny Boy (arr. Joseph Flummerfelt) Danny Boy (James Last arrangement) Danny Boy (arr. Thin Lizzy) Danny Boy (arr. DeFeo) Danny Boy (Brian Rogers arrangement) Danny Boy (catch-all for unknown arrangements) Danny Boy (arr. Michael McGlynn) Danny Boy (arr. Julie Knowles) Danny Boy (arr. Ralph Towner)

Recordings

Date	Title	Attributes	Artist	Length
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1917-09-26	Danny Boy (1917-09-26, take 3; matrix C-16502)		Ernestine Schumann‐Heink	3:25
1939-12-27	Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)	live	Glenn Miller	1:51
1941-07-05	Danny Boy (1941-07-05 recording)	cover	Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra	3:14
1941-07-05	Danny Boy		Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and his Orchestra	3:11
1945	Danny Boy	instrumental and live	Art Tatum	3:07
1946-05-17	Danny Boy (London-Donnie) (alt) (studio, 1946-05-17: Savoy S59049-2, alternate take)	instrumental	Don Byas Quartet	3:05
1946-05-17	London‐Donnie (studio, 1946-05-17: Savoy S59049-4)	instrumental	Don Byas Quartet	2:49
1946-07-31	Danny Boy		Count Basie and His Orchestra	3:10
1950-04-19	Danny Boy		Al Hibbler	3:13
1953-02	Danny Boy	instrumental	Ben Webster & The Modern Jazz Quartet	4:37
1953-05-21	Danny Boy		Ben Webster	3:40
1953	Danny Boy	instrumental	Ben Webster	3:39
1955-07-03	Danny Boy	instrumental	Art Tatum	3:18
1955-07-19 – 1955-08-01	Danny Boy (live, 1955: London Palladium, London, UK)	live	Rosemary Clooney accompanied by The Skyrockets Orchestra with Buddy Cole at the piano	2:18
1955-07-19 – 1955-08-01	Danny Boy (live, 1955: London Palladium, London, UK)	live	Rosemary Clooney accompanied by The Skyrockets Orchestra with Buddy Cole at the piano	2:59
1955-08-30	Danny Boy		Judy Garland	2:28
1957-11-20	Danny Boy	instrumental	Jimmy Smith	7:27
1958-12 – 1959-01	Danny Boy / Danny Boy (incomplete)	cover	Elvis Presley	7:02
1958 – 1960	Danny Boy (live, 1958–1960: Germany)	cover and live	Elvis Presley	3:32
1959-04	Danny Boy (live, 1959-04: Carnegie Hall, New York, United States)	cover and live	Harry Belafonte	5:21
1959	Danny Boy	cover	Elvis Presley	3:55
1961-11-30	Danny Boy		Bill Monroe	2:36
1961	Danny Boy		Andy Williams	2:54
1962-04-04	Danny Boy	cover and instrumental	Bill Evans	10:41
1962-04-04	Danny Boy	cover and instrumental	Bill Evans	10:41
1962-04-10	Danny Boy	instrumental	Bill Evans Trio	10:41
1962-08-14	Danny Boy	cover and instrumental	Shelly Manne / Bill Evans with Monty Budwig	3:43
1964-06-05	Danny Boy	instrumental	Herman Chittison	3:04
1964-12-20	Danny Boy		Johnny Cash	5:14
1964	Danny Boy (stereo)	instrumental	Maynard Ferguson	3:50
1964	Danny Boy	instrumental and live	Ben Webster WIth Dave Frishberg, Richard Davis, Grady Tate	5:05
1964	Danny Boy		Carol Sloane, Ben Webster	4:25
1965	Danny Boy	live	Andy Williams	2:57
1966-06-30	Danny Boy	instrumental	Cees Slinger	4:27
1968-06-25	Danny Boy (instrumental)	cover and instrumental	Elvis Presley	1:35
1969-01-30	Danny Boy (stereo)	cover and live	The Beatles	0:43
1969-01-30	Danny Boy 30.09	live and partial	The Beatles	0:43
1969	Danny Boy (live, 1969: The Flamingo Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, NV, USA)	cover and live	Tom Jones	4:21
1970-05 – 1970-10	Pete Drake's Talking Steel Guitar (rec May-Oct '70)	cover and partial	George Harrison & Ringo Starr	5:08
1975-01-21 – 1975-01-24	Medley: I Dream of Jeannie / Danny Boy	cover and medley	Joan Baez	4:11
1976-02-02 – 1976-02-07	Danny Boy	cover	Elvis Presley	3:56
1976-02-05	Danny Boy	cover	Elvis Presley	3:54
1976-02-05	Danny Boy	cover	Elvis Presley	3:56
1976-02-05	Danny Boy (alternate take 8)	cover	Elvis Presley	4:02
1976-02-05	Danny Boy (take 9)	cover	Elvis Presley	4:02
1976-06-01	Danny Boy	cover and live	Elvis Presley	4:46
1976-09-05	Danny Boy	cover and live	Elvis Presley	3:32
1976-09-06	Danny Boy	cover and live	Elvis Presley	3:44
1977-10	Danny Boy	instrumental	Herb Ellis / Remo Palmier	2:48
1979	Danny Boy	cover and instrumental	Roland Cedermark	3:35
1982-05-17	Danny Boy (live, 1982-05-17: The Bottom Line, New York, NY, USA)	live	Richard & Linda Thompson	3:45
1982-05-17 – 1982-05-18	Danny Boy (live, 1982-05: The Bottom Line, New York, NY, USA)	live	Richard Thompson Big Band	3:35
1982	Danny Boy		Airmen of Note	1:58
1983-12-10	Danny Boy (live, 1983-12-10: Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany)	live	Richard Thompson Band	5:43
1983-12-10	Danny Boy (live, 1983-12-10: Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany)	live	Richard Thompson Band	5:43
1984-05-18	Danny Boy		Carol Sloane	?:??
1987-05	Danny Boy		[traditional]	3:45
1988-04	Danny Boy	instrumental	Great Jazz Trio	7:38
1990-09-18 – 1990-10-04	Danny Boy		Plácido Domingo, Itzhak Perlman, New York Studio Orchestra, Jonathan Tunick	3:35
1992-09-14 – 1992-09-15	Danny Boy		Ann Murray, Graham Johnson	3:22
1994-06	Danny Boy	cover and instrumental	Charlie Haden & Hank Jones	5:51
1994	Danny Boy (live at Pearl's, Annapolis, 1994)	cover and live	Eva Cassidy	3:41
1996-10-23	Modena: Danny Boy (live, 1996-10-23: Teatro Comunale di Modena, Modena, Italy)	instrumental	Keith Jarrett	5:00
1997-08-09	Danny Boy	live	Fairport Convention	3:11
1998-02-17	Danny Boy	live	Joe Jackson	6:51
1998-02-19 – 1998-02-20	Danny Boy	instrumental	Warren Vaché & Allan Vaché	3:43
2000-01 – 2000-03	Songs & Music From the British Isles: Greensleeves / Men of Harlech / Londonderry Air (Danny Boy) / The Road to the Isles	medley	The City of London Choir, Hilary Davan Wetton, The BBC Concert Orchestra, Barrie Hingley	8:28
2002-06-18 – 2002-06-20	Danny Boy	cover	Jan Kåre Hystad Kvartett	2:30
2003-11	Danny Boy		Thomas Quasthoff, Justus Zeyen	3:15
2008-02-07	Danny Boy (live, 2008-02-07: Enmore Theatre, Sydney, Australia)	cover and live	John Butler	3:42
2012-03	Danny Boy (live, 2012-03: Tin Shed Tales Tour, WA, Australia)	cover and live	John Butler	4:35
2013-03-17	Danny Boy	cover	Chris Hadfield	2:57
2018-04-27 – 2018-04-29	Danny Boy		Aoife O'Connor, The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin, Declan Wildes, Desmond Earley	4:25
2018-05-03 – 2018-06-08	Danny Boy		Voces8	4:34
2019-09 – 2019-11	Danny Boy		Patricia Petibon, Ronan Le Bars, Susan Manoff	5:37
2020-01-31	Danny Boy (live, 2020-01-31: Fire Aid Benefit: Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Australia)	cover and live	John Butler	7:01
	Dadday Boy	cover and instrumental	Bill Evans	3:42
	Danny boy		Bing Crosby	3:19
	Danny boy		Glenn Miller	2:14
	Danny Boy		Laura Wright	4:05
	Danny Boy	cover	Harry Belafonte	4:47
	Danny Boy		Johnny Cash	4:13
	Danny Boy		[unknown]	4:37
	Danny Boy	cover	Harry Belafonte	5:52
	Danny Boy		Johnny Cash	5:13
	Danny Boy		Roger Whittaker	4:05
	Danny Boy		Joni James	3:26
	Danny Boy		Joni James	3:54
	Danny Boy	cover	Harry Belafonte	5:08
	Danny Boy	cover	Bill Monroe	2:36
	Danny Boy		Judy Garland	3:05
	Danny Boy	instrumental	Bettine Clemen with Members of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra	4:03
	Danny Boy	cover	Harry Belafonte	5:02
	Danny Boy	cover	Elvis Presley	3:56
	Danny Boy	cover	Elvis Presley	4:02
	Danny Boy	cover	Harry Belafonte	5:52
	Danny Boy	instrumental	Till Brönner	4:48
	Danny Boy	cover	Elvis Presley	3:58
	Danny Boy	cover	Harry Belafonte	5:14
	Danny Boy	cover	Brobdingnagian Bards	2:35
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